Sway, that's actual, decent info.
"Just think of that burrito, frozen in the middle, burned on the edges!" IKR!
What about the hot dog with the 'turned to jerky' spot? Or the 2 dogs that fuse together?
Sheryl, LOL! I started out with something a lot more "ewww" typed and got 'hold of myself though I still sound way too emotional above. OK, I was grossed out, you caught me! I think Stush knows me well enough to know I don't hold this against him at all, and admire his proactive attitude in general.
I did an awful job trying to make the one point I thought important. Organic materials that can decompose have no place in the seed-sprouting business. Not that folks don't do it, or that it doesn't go great a lot of the time, but the risk of fungi/pathogens messing things up is formidable.
And I wasn't kiddin about stuff exploding. Only about 2 weeks ago I experienced 'a new one.' I was nuking some chicken noodle soup, Progresso to be exact. I heard a fat, deep, juicy THUMP sound. I go to the nuker, there's soup everywhere, dripping out of the nuker, running out the front of it, running onto the floor. I think it was a pea that actually blew up, and man did it ever! Does anyone think perlite could explode? Are there moisture-filled 'cells' in the middle? I have no idea but if dirt exploded in the nuker, it would be time to get a new one in my book! (But, like said, I wouldn't put it in there to begin with.)